534 TINAMID^. 



Adult male. Upper parts olive rufous-brown ; upper wing- coverts 

 and upper tail-coverts more olive, the latter with pale buff bars, 

 and between these with obsolete black bar-like marks, and freckled 

 with irregular dusky lines ; forehead blackish brown ; lores, sides 

 of the head, and throat rufous cinnamon, paler on the chin * ; hind 

 part of the neck rufous brown ; lower fore part of the neck and 

 breast grey, obsoletely vermiculated with olive-brown ; sides olive- 

 brown ; middle of the abdomen white ; lower flanks olive-brown, the 

 feathers with apical whitish and subapical black bars ; iinder tail- 

 coverts bright rufous, freckled with irregular black bars and lipped 

 with whitish buff; bastard- wing, primary-coverts, and primaries 

 uniform brown ; greater upper wing-coverts with black subapical 

 marks and some pale buff spots or marks ; secondaries variegated 

 with olive-brown on the edge of the outer web ; marginal under 

 wing-coverts greyish brown, the last row grey, the central ones 

 whitish ; tail-feathers olive rufous-brown, with a subapical rufescent 

 narrow bar : bill dusky above, paler beneath ; feet in dry skin whitish. 

 Total length about 12 inches, wing 6-i^5,tail2,culmen 1-1, tarsus 1-85. 



The female differs from the male in having the upper parts dis- 

 tinctly barred with black and fulvous buff [like the females of 

 C. erijiliro'pus]. 



Hah. Brazil, from Para to Matto Grosso ; the locality New Granada 

 {Schlegel) is open to doubt. 



a. 2 ? ad. St. Para. R. Graham, Esq. [P.]. 



h. (S ad. sk. Matto Grosso, Brazil, Nov. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Natterer). 



17. Crypturus erythropus. (Plate X.) 



Tinamus erythropus, Natt. Cat. MS.; Teh. Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 

 1863, p. 1127 (1863) ; Katt. ibid. p. 1129 (1863); G. R. Gr. List 

 Gallinte Br. Mus. p. 101, n. 34 (1867) ; Felz. Orn. Bras. pp. 293, 

 453,lv (Rio Negro, Barra do Rio Negro, Forte do Rio Branco) (1871) ; 

 Gieb. Thes. Orti. iii. p. 636 (1877) ; Felz. u. Lor. Ami. naturh. 

 Hofmus. iii. p. 52 (types) (1888). 



Tinamus strigulosus, part., G. R. Gr. List Gallinee Brit. Mus. p. 100, 

 specim. b (1867). 



Tinamus longirostris, G. R. Gr. List Gallina Brit. Mus. p. 101, n. 20 

 (1867) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 636 (1877). 



Nothocercus longirostris, G. R. Gr. Hand-list, iii. p. 5, n. 9887 (1871). 



Nothocercus erythropus, G. R. Gr. Hand-list, iii. p. 5, n.9893 (1871). 



Crypturus erythropus, Sclat. S( Salv. Norn. Av. Neotrop. p. 152, n. 9 

 (1873) ; Schleg. 3Ius. P.-B., Tinami, p. 34 (svn. emend.) (1880); 

 Berl. J.f. O. 1892, p. 455 (critical). 



Achilt male. Upper part of the head brown, changing into rufous 

 brown on the occiput and nape ; back rufous brown, more or less 

 olivaceous ; mantle slightly and indistinctly vermiculated ; upper 

 tail-coverts olive-brown, barred with black and ochreous yellowish ; 



* The throat is wJiite in some specimens, at least according to Schlegel's 

 description. 



